Films that have disappeared from our screens

[icestation2]

What films have strangely disappeared from the schedule on terrestrial television. Films that used to be shown sometimes quite often but they seem to have not been shown for what seems like decades.



What about:



The Medusa Touch - starring Richard Burton

Flashpoint - Kris Kristofferson

The Dead Zone - Christopher Walken

[DB7]

Medusa Touch is often on ITV2.

[batman]

Flashpoint was on about two months ago on Sky 3 or one of the other Freeview channels.

[Tony Pendrey]

Sorry to be a wet blanket but "Dead Zone" was shown recently on one of the freeview channels quite late.



I have it on video and DVD but for some silly reason I stayed up to watch it.



My other half thinks I am loony. She could be right.

[icestation2]

I obviousy understand that these films I mentioned are being shown on digital channels etc, but that still doesn't explain why they are never shown on any of the four main channels.

[Bernardo]

I take your point Ice. You just picked bad examples but there are many films that have literally faded away. I think Lawrence of Arabia was rescued as a last minute thing and those of good but lesser quality have decayed or are in a forgotten vault somewhere as it is too expensive for the return on cost to renovate.

[Amethyst_Isle]

Scarecrow with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino,great film that.



The classic British horror films like they used to show as Double Bills way back.



Twilight's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster,another great film.



The Original 1970's Willard /Ben films,those two never been on cable or satelite either,last time those were on I think must be around the 1980's.





Quite a few of the classic Woody Allen films have not beenshown on the five basic channels



A lot of films are bought by Sky and the like and shown to death,the BBC seem to recycle the same ones over and over.

[JD_Fan]

The Small Voice with Valerie Hobson and Howard Keel

White Corridors with Googie Withers and James Donald

The Citadel with Ann Blyth and Torin Thatcher (very sad ... I want to have this on DVD or VHS!!!)

[Captain Casper]

name='Amethyst_Isle']

Twilight's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster,another great film.

Now that WAS a damn good movie. Not seen it for at least 20 years. It used to be on a local cable network in Humberside via Rediffusion called "Starview". They showed it plus "Breaking Away" at least 3 times a week!

[Brief Encounter]

I think there's more films that have disappeared than still get shown.

[Dandelion]

Twilight Zone - The Movie is one I can think of

[Carmel]

Also in the 70's there used to be some great made for tv movies some were quite creepy, although i have to say mostly American. Films like Harvest Home, Sweet Peggy, Crow Haven Farm, the house that would not die. I think they should start making some of these kind of Tv films again.

[Marky B]

name='Amethyst_Isle']

Twilight's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster,another great film.r.

A gripping film. Proof of what happens when the past comes back to haunt the government. Filmed in West Germany I believe.

Ta Ta

Marky B

[TomDaws]

A couple of early 70s Jean Simmons films : The Happy Ending and Say Hello To Yesterday.

[icestation2]

The Hideaways (children mooching about in a museum) - Ingrid Bergman

The Light at the Edge of the World - Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas.

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh - Patrick McGoohan

[Windthrop]

See How They Run the 1955 version of the famous stage farce. Have mentioned it several times on this forum but it never gets shown in any media - anyone out there able to help ?

[CaptainWaggett]

Surely pretty well all films made before the 1950s have now disappeared from the schedules - how many silents or even films from the 1930s get airings on terrestrial tv? Even from the 1940s and 1950s, the canon is now very small.

[Windthrop]

name='CaptainWaggett']Surely pretty well all films made before the 1950s have now disappeared from the schedules - how many silents or even films from the 1930s get airings on terrestrial tv? Even from the 1940s and 1950s, the canon is now very small.

Oh for the early days of CH4 - we didn't know how lucky we were

[batman]

name='Windthrop']Oh for the early days of CH4 - we didn't know how lucky we were

We certainly didn't .... every afternoon on CH4 plus even more at the weekends. Late night showings on BBC2 and even BBC1 still showed 'em on a Sunday.

[CaptainWaggett]

I remember the 1982 Hitchcock season when they showed such rarities as Rich And Strange and Under Capricorn. BBC 4 could only manage 3 films in their 'season'